Category: God’s Love
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The Head vs The Heart
Author’s note: Though I wrote this piece back in 2010, and much has changed with me since then, I think the main idea I addressed still has relevance today and hence I thought it worth sharing. “Jeremy” Laurece began tenderly, her serene, rich voice filling the air around me. “The longest distance in the world is…
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One
This election, perhaps more than any election in recent years, has drawn to the surface unparalleled levels of divisiveness. Social media are often merely containers for vitriol as it is commonplace to see statements like “If you vote for ______ then you’re (insert your favorite derisive adjectives)”. Even among my brothers and sisters in Christ,…
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The Gift
The previous week was definitely a Smashing Pumpkins kind of week. As one of my favorite bands of all time, The Smashing Pumpkins are one of those artists that I can listen to over and over and over again and not get tired of them. Their first 3 albums; Gish, Siamese Dream, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, are in my…
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Cleaning Up Misunderstandings About Dirtiness
“I heard you did stand up comedy.” Steve started, as he finished shaking my hand in the church lobby. “Yeah I did” I replied. “It was a blast”. The man with whom I was speaking, Steve Daugherty, is the teaching pastor at my church – but not just that – he is also one of…
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A Penny for your Thoughts
Recently, I went shopping. The great thing about shopping post Christmas is that it is often a rather lovely array of extreme-clearance-money-saving bonanzas. Discount are piled on top of discounts so that once you’ve got 50% off an item that’s already 60% off where you also get buy one get one free, it practically feels…
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